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Because We Can, That's Why: In September, the National Geographic cable TV show "Taboo" featured three young Tokyo partiers as examples of the "bagel head" craze in which fun-lovers inject saline just under the skin of the forehead to create a swelling and then pressure the center to achieve a donut look that lasts up to 24 hours before the saline is absorbed into the body. Some adventurers have injected other areas of the body -- even the scrotum. [Daily Mail (London), 9-25-2012]

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Recurring Theme: In Ventura, Calif., in September, once again, a scammer tried to bilk victims out of money by assuring them that he could double their cash (in this case, $14,000) merely by spraying it with a secret chemical. (Of course, the victims had to wait several hours for their newly doubled cash to dry and eventually discovered that the scammer had substituted blank paper and by that time was long gone.)

But the weirdest aspect of the scam is that people who are so unsophisticated as to fall for it somehow managed to amass, in this tight economy, $14,000 cash to begin with. [Ventury County Star, 9-20-2012]

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For a September beauty contest of female college students in China's Hubei province, certain minimum body requirements were established at the outset (beyond the traditional chest, waist and hip sizes).

Among them, according to a report in China's Global Post: The space between the candidate's pupils should be 46 percent of the distance between each pupil and the nearer ear, and the distance between a candidate's nipples should be at least 20cm (7.8 inches). [Agence France-Presse via New York Daily News, 9-7-2012]